Garbage islands

Currently exist five islands of garbage that each contains a large amount of tons of plastic. The first island discovered was in 1997 in the Pacific Ocean. But is not the only one because also exist more islands on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The biggest island measure more than 1500000 km2.

They are formed by trash and waste from continental areas and also some part of the ships. All of this trash join together by vortex of ocean currents. Unfortunately these islands are moving all the time by this ocean currents, and pollute and destroy the marine ecosystems. The animals eat the trash and die, and the sun with the trash release toxins and kill the animals too. The last consequence is that the seaweeds don't receive the enough light for do the photosynthesis